''Aniki-Bóbó'' is a 1942 Portuguese film directed by

Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...

. It is his first feature-length film. The actors are mostly children from Oliveira's hometown,

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

. The script was adapted by Manoel de Oliveira from a short story by

José Rodrigues de Freitas José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

, ''Meninos Milionários'' (lit. ''Millionaire Children''). ''Aniki-Bóbó'' is a rhyme from a children's game, akin to Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. The film was not very well received, but with time it gained recognition and was finally accepted as one of the most important Portuguese films of its time. In several respects, this film seems to anticipate Italian neorealism. It would be 21 years before Oliveira directed his next feature film.

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* 1942 films 1942 drama films 1940s Portuguese-language films Portuguese black-and-white films Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira Portuguese drama films Films shot in Portugal {{1940s-drama-film-stub